Plato and his Predecessors considers how Plato represents his philosophical predecessors in a past due quartet of dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, the Politicus and the Philebus. those predecessors seem in imaginary conversations; and they're refuted once they fail to guard their philosophical positions in debate.

The connection among Seneca's prose works and his occupation as a first-century Roman statesman is not easy, for whereas he writes within the first individual, he tells little of his exterior existence or of the folks and occasions that shaped its atmosphere. during this e-book, Miriam Griffin addresses the matter through first reconstructing Seneca's profession utilizing in basic terms open air assets and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis.

This ebook consolidates rising learn on Aristotle's technological know-how and ethics that allows you to discover the level to which the suggestions, equipment, and practices he built for medical inquiry and rationalization are used to enquire ethical phenomena. every one bankruptcy exhibits, another way, that Aristotle's ethics is far extra like a technological know-how than it's usually represented.

The fire also in Lipara is visible and flaming, yet not by day, but only at night. They say also that in Pithecusae the ground is fiery, and extraordinarily hot, yet not burning. 38 . Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years. 20 39 . It is said that in Lydia a vast amount of fire blazed up, and continued burning for seven days.

43 . They say that in Cyprus, at the place called Tyrrhias, copper is produced in like manner; for men having cut it up, as it appears, into small pieces, sow it, and then, when the rains have come on, it grows and springs up, and so is collected. 44 . They say that in the island of Melos, in those parts of the ground that are dug up, the earth fills itself up again. 45 . In Paeonia they state that when continuous showers have fallen, and the ground is thoroughly soaked, there is found what is called gold without fire.

The moisture is used up and the fruit makes the heat rise, and so the fruit will be bitter, and the stones in the fruit will be pyramidal in form on account of the upward attraction of the heat and the downward attraction of the cold and moisture which are of the same nature as sour water; and the moisture remains in the trunk of the tree, which consequently thickens, while its extremities are thin. If trees are planted in temperate soil, they reach maturity quickly before the days of spring, because, when the heat is almost temperate and the moisture has made its appearance and the air is clear, the fruit will not require much heat during the process of concoction.